Latest posts  
December
26
  6:50:21 AM

Who’s in charge at Georgetown?

When a former president and CEO of Planned Parenthood winds up getting a job teaching in the Health Systems department at Georgetown University, it’s more than a problem of how that might be perceived. Though Georgetown is one of America’s more liberal Catholic universities, it is still…..a Catholic university.

And Roberta Lynn Geidner-Antoniotti has taught in the nursing school there since 2005, it turns out.

“Ms. Geidner-Antoniotti has also served as acting project director of the Emergency Contraception Public Awareness Campaign, in which capacity she “initiated [a] national campaign to promote emergency contraception services through 140 affiliates resulting in significant growth in provision of care to prevent unintended pregnancies.” Later, as vice president of Women’s Capital Corporation, she “recruited, based on experience in women’s reproductive health, to develop product expansion and marketing opportunities in public health sector for women’s pharmaceutical product, PlanB emergency contraception.” During her tenure the Emergency Contraception Public Awareness Campaign, she “increased sales 175% in public sector by securing significant purchasing agreements with federal, state and local government and private family planning agencies.”

But wait…there’s more. Georgetown seems to have a pretty cozy relationship with PP. See, the university has this program….well, let them explain:

“The Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program (WLPPFP) accepts applications from organizations located in the Washington, D.C. area that would like to host a Women’s Law Fellow for the upcoming Fellowship year,” notes the web site of the Georgetown University Law Center. “The Women’s Law Fellow must be assigned to work on legal and public policy issues affecting the status of women … If your organization is awarded a Women’s Law Fellow, the $37,500 annual stipend will be covered by WLPPFP through a grant to your organization.”

Sounds good, right? One might think any number of good organizations worthy of an esteemed relationship with Georgetown.

But here’s the lede of that story:

“The Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program at one of the nation’s leading Jesuit universities placed a fellowship winner with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, according to the university’s web site.”

Right off hand, one can think of at least two different groups that might be interested in questioning the school’s identity and policy with regard to the Catholic church…..the US bishops, and prospective students and their parents.



 
about this blog | Bookmark and Share

Search this blog

 Subscribe to Sheila's newsletter
rss Subscribe to Sheila's RSS feed

 Recent Posts
Dozens of Catholic institutions sue Obama
22 May 2012
Seeing the human face in mass media
15 May 2012
Motherhood
13 May 2012
First Lady fashion
11 May 2012
Obama’s unsurprising marriage epiphany
10 May 2012

 MercatorNet blogs
Population issues: Demography is Destiny
Family social policy: Family Edge
Style and culture: Tiger Print
News about bioethics: BioEdge
From the editors: Conniptions

 Archive
May 2012 | Apr 2012 | Mar 2012 | more >>

  From MercatorNet's home page

Sensing the sacred
25 May 2012
Is there a sense of the sacred that even the non-religious can share?

Could geoengineering save the planet?
25 May 2012
And who is thinking about the ethics of a technological quick fix?

A thought experiment about marriage
24 May 2012
A world in which sexual intimacy could not produce children would never have come up with the idea of marriage.

Australia’s lifeline: its precarious sea lanes
23 May 2012
Large, isolated and rich, Australia needs to cultivate a friendship with the US to survive in an dangerous world.

It’s only natural
22 May 2012
The bitterest debates today in the public square often turn on what is "natural". The Chinese sages had a lot…


 Tags
European Union, March for Life, human dignity, euthanasia, Senate confirmation hearings, President Obama, State of the Union address, human spirit, Cardinal Francis George, State of the Union, leadership, Planned Parenthood, partial-birth abortion,